Top de las «mirrorless APS-C de Sony
No estaba yo muy seguro de que no os hubiera hablado aún del análisis del bueno de Ken Rockwell sobre la Sony Alfa 6600, pero por lo que veo en la fecha de publicación seguro que no, pues lo ha publicado hoy.
Así que incondicionales de Ken y sus particulares colorines e interesados en esta maquinita, el top de Sony en el mundo NEX que ya no se llama NEX, aquí os dejo con lo habitual para esta WEB y además, en un gesto de generosidad bien propio de estas entrañables fechas (donde los políticos acabarán sacándose las entrañas entre ellos y ya de paso a todos sus súbditos), os frezco también el manual de usuario de la maquinita elaborado por el propio Ken.
Hala, que lo disfrutéis con salud y alegría.
New compared to the A6500
- No more built-in flash, the only Sony APS-C camera without one.
- 2.3 times longer rated battery life than the A6500: 720 versus 310 shots. In actual use I get about 1,500 shots per charge!
- New square 1:1 crop, as well as native 3:2 and the 16:9 crop of the A6500.
- Headphone jack.
- LCD now can flip up 180º for self-portraits.
- Auto ISO now covers ISO 100 ~ ISO 102,400.
- Real-time eye-AF, even in video.
- Eye-AF for people and for animals, but you have to select just one at a time at MENU > CAMERA 1 > page 6/14 > Face/Eye AF Set > Subject Detection > select HUMAN or ANIMAL.
- 4K HDR video (A6500 does 4K, but not HDR).
- S-Log2, S-Log3, HLG and HLG1-3 video.
- No more MP4 or 720p video.
- 425 zone contrast detection, up from 169 zones.
- Card slot moved away from door hinge making the card much easier to reach.
- New, deeper eyecup is too hard and pokes my eye socket uncomfortably.
- Panorama mode replaced by S&Q (over- and under-crank movie modes) on top dial.
- 1.9 oz. (53g) heavier than the A6500.
- $400 more expensive than the A6500 in December 2019.
- My Menu (★) menu.
- Now shoots at 7 FPS in Silent mode (MENU > CAMERA 2 > page 4/9 > Silent Shooting). The A6500 only ran at high frame rates in the regular shutter mode. (Both camera run up to 11 FPS in regular shutter mode.)
- The Silent Mode setting is now saved and recalled with the camera Memory Settlings.
- The histograms now lack vertical divisions. No longer are there 1/4 or 1/5 markings between black and white.
- Bluetooth v4.1.
- Now offshored to China rather than Thailand like the A6500.
- Otherwise has the same 24MP sensor, same ISO range, same 11 FPS frame rate, same AF system hardware, same viewfinder, same frame rates and same video performance as the A6500. New processing adds more eye recognition to the already superb AF system, but even the oldest A6000 has great autofocus.
Good:
- In-camera image stabilization, rated 5 stops.
- World’s best mirrorless autofocus system, just like other Sonys.
- Easy to select the autofocus areas with the touch LCD as you look through the finder.
- Excellent high frame-rate still images.
- Small, light, fast, tough and makes great-looking pictures.
- Two Memory recall modes on the top dial.
- Every ISO from ISO 50 ~ ISO 102,400 is selectable in third stops.
- Nice hinged connector door, not a crappy floppy flap like too many other cameras.
- Remote control via a phone app.
- WiFi & NFC.
- Completely silent in Silent mode.
Bad:
- No built-in flash, the only Sony APS-C camera without one.
- Crummy ergonomics, menus and handling compared to Canon and Nikon APS-C mirrorless cameras. Sony no longer has this market to itself anymore.
- Slower handing than a DSLR; still need to wait a moment to turn-on, wake-up or change settings.
- Flash and Bulb modes don’t work in Silent mode (they don’t on any other camera, either).
- LCD is too dim for daylight, too small to show pictures as well as any iPhone, and doesn’t flip very far.
- Offshored to China; not made domestically in Japan.
- Chopped 16:9 LCD makes for very small (only 2.6″/66mm) effective image diagonal for 3:2 still images.
Missing
- No built-in flash, the only Sony APS-C camera without one.
- The touch LCD is great for selecting AF areas, but it doesn’t work in menus, doesn’t work in playback and especially doesn’t work for entering text in the menu system for copyright data — you still have to do all this with the 4-way controller like it’s 1978 all over again.
- No front control dial; but has a second rear dial which is also the 4-way controller.
- No GPS.
- No exposure compensation dial (you can assign the rear dial to this, or you have to fiddle in a menu).
- No way to back up the complete camera state as Nikons can do.
- Programmable Memory recall modes don’t recall everything, for instance, the memory modes don’t save and recall whether or not you’re in Silent mode.
- No second card slot.
- The LCD isn’t bright enough to see in direct sunlight.
- The histograms lack vertical divisions. No longer are there 1/4 or 1/5 markings between black and white.
- No LCD auto brightness control — but the finder’s auto brightness control is excellent.
- No NTSC, no PAL, no MP4 and no 720p video.
El querido lector, a poco apreciador que seas, habrás apreciado que la ausencia de flash integrado te ha tocado «la pera» al bueno de Ken. Digo yo que no hay para tanto, ¿ no ? Bueno, no se, todo es opinable.
Nota tonta: hombre, pues esta con un zoom todoterreno que ahora mismo no sabría escoger, para viajar puede ser una muy buena opción.
